Your Name In Space

March 30, 1996|By Seth Borentstein of The Sentinel Staff

CAPE CANAVERAL — Do you want to send your signature to Saturn next year?

NASA will take up to 1 million signatures to Saturn aboard its $2 billion Cassini planetary probe, scheduled to be launched from Cape Canaveral Air Station in October 1997. So far 50,000 autographs have come in. Volunteers will scan and load the signatures on a CD-ROM disk. The 6-ton Cassini won't be carrying any CD disk reader, so any alien trying to read your name could be out of luck.